bedazzled@bedazzled ~ $ emerge -dpv cairo These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies Parent: None Depstring: x11-libs/cairo Candidates: ['x11-libs/cairo'] !!! aux_get(): ebuild path for 'x11-libs/cairo-1.1.1_alpha20060115' not specified: !!! None ebuild: x11-libs/cairo-1.0.2 binpkg: None - Parent: ebuild / x11-libs/cairo-1.0.2 merge Depstring: media-libs/fontconfig >=media-libs/freetype-2.1 sys-libs/zlib X? ( || ( ( x11-libs/libXrender x11-libs/libXt ) virtual/x11 ) virtual/xft ) glitz? ( >=media-libs/glitz-0.4.4 ) png? ( media-libs/libpng ) !=dev-util/pkgconfig-0.9 doc? ( >=dev-util/gtk-doc-1.3 ~app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.2 ) !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch ) media-libs/fontconfig >=media-libs/freetype-2.1 sys-libs/zlib X? ( || ( ( x11-libs/libXrender x11-libs/libXt ) virtual/x11 ) virtual/xft ) glitz? ( >=media-libs/glitz-0.4.4 ) png? ( media-libs/libpng ) !